Monday, April 28, 2025
4/28/2025
Southeastern Regional Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems (SR-SCIMS) - ABSTRACT The Southeastern Regional Spinal Cord Injury Model System (SeR-SCIMS) offers multidisciplinary rehabilitation specifically designed for the needs of individuals with SCI across the continuum of care. In this coming 5-year SCIMS cycle, our goal is to contribute 500 new cases to the SCIMS database, and ~1,500 interviews of former patients at prescribed post-injury timepoints. Beyond providing outstanding clinical care, our goal is to conduct innovative research to improve outcomes in the health and function domain. An Advisory Board comprised of individuals with a broad skill set and experiences representing the diversity of the community in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, and age will provide critical feedback and insights on all aspects of our SCIMS projects, as well as our dissemination, knowledge translation, and consumer engagement activities. The objective of our Site-specific Project is to evaluate the effects of motor skill training plus non-invasive spinal stimulation; anticipated outcomes are improved walking ability, balance, strength, and reduced spasticity. The objective of our Collaborative Project is to identify risk factors for unintentional injuries in the first year after SCI; the anticipated outcome is knowledge about how these injuries occur, associated risk factors, and tool development to inform education/prevention programs. We will collaborate with other SCIMS Centers and the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center. The expected products are scientific results and information for dissemination to our various stakeholder communities, including people with SCI, families/care partners; clinicians; researchers; policy makers; advocacy groups; industry representatives; and the general public. We welcome the opportunity to conduct this project with the valued input of individuals from the disability and minority communities.
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